How to deal with male partner I work with who keeps interrupting me? He likes to call a lot so we communicate over the phone often and 99% of the time he interrupts me at least 1-2 times. Not sure if he does it only to me or to all associates he works with. Any tips on how to get him to unlearn this behavior with me?

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When this happens to me, I just call it out. “May I finish without being interrupted?” “Don’t interrupt me I’m not done.”

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Agree!!! Female partner would never deal with this rudeness.

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Oh I’ll wait till you’re done.

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Ill try this!

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Also, it’s not necessarily a male/female thing, though often is. I am female and am a chronic interrupter (trying to improve!).

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Some people ramble and some juniors don’t respect my time and want to talk at length about whatever they want to talk about. Sometimes they are saying something based on a misconception and it’s a waste of time to let them go on and on about it. These are typically the people I interrupt.

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If he’s directly calling you to talk about his matters, then quite frankly it’s not your job to teach him to unlearn the behavior. He’s the partner, and you’re paid to listen, not the other way around.

It’d be different if you were talking about a group discussion where everyone’s contributing. But it sounds like it’s not that.

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To each their own. I can run my matters without turning a phone call into a power struggle. I say what needs to be said in whatever medium necessary. Maybe that’s an email that starts with “following up on our conversation.” But associates are definitely not paid enough to train the partners to be “normal” lol

“Hang on, I still have the floor”…and when you’re finished, “Ok, you’re on…Go!” …j/k I have no idea how to say that professionally

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